’Panther’ the cat rescued after days-long utility pole perch

貓咪黑豹棲息在電線桿上數日後獲救

【摘要2021.12.19.日.自由】＠國際新聞中心

For at least two days and maybe more, residents of a suburban Denver neighborhood worried about the fate of a black cat called Panther who was perched atop a 11-meter utility pole.

至少兩天或更多天以來，丹佛一處郊區的居民擔心一隻名叫黑豹的黑貓的命運，牠棲息在一根11公尺高的電線桿上。

Panther stayed put despite efforts by his co-owner, Alexis Soberanis and others to coax him down in Aurora. Neither pleading nor the enticement of food did the trick.

黑豹留在原地不動，儘管牠的共同主人艾力克斯．索伯拉尼斯和其他人在奧羅拉設法努力哄騙牠下來，但不論是動之以情或是食物引誘都無法成功。

``Everybody’s been just like, `Put food down and it’ll come down eventually,’’’ said Aurora resident Jessica Meadows on Friday morning, when the city received its first snow of the season. ``That’s not going to happen.’’

奧羅拉居民潔希卡．梅多斯在該市下起本季第一場雪的週五早上說，「大家都說，放些食物，牠終究會下來」，「這是不可能的」。

News of Panther’s plight reached Aurora Councilmember Curtis Gardner and city officials dispatched a ladder truck Friday afternoom. After getting the truck into place, firefighters rescued the cat. Kimberly Medina, another Panther co-owner, said he had always been allowed outside. No more, she said: ``Never.’’

奧羅拉市議員寇帝斯．嘉德納聽到黑豹陷入困境的消息後，市政府官員下午派出一輛雲梯車。在車輛就位後，消防員救下這隻貓。牠的另一位共同主人金伯利．梅狄納說，牠一直被允許在外面活動，現在不行了，「永遠都不行」。

新聞辭典

utility pole：名詞，電線桿。utility指公用事業、效用、實用。例句：This computer is of low utility for the home user.（這部電腦對家庭用戶的實用性不大。）

stay put：指留在原地。例句And I’ll stay put as long as it takes.（只要有需要，我會一直留在原地。）

ladder truck：名詞，雲梯車。 aerial ladder fire truck指消防雲梯車。